With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this animal was the apex predator of its era—a true nightmare of the Cambrian ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion ...

Scientists until then had believed that the Cambrian explosion was ... Specimen from Florida Keys Marine Life Although these rangeomorphs dominated the deep-sea ecosystem at Mistaken Point for ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

I travelled to the Rockies to help discover the history of animal life Maydianne C.B. Andrade ... the shapes and lives of the animals that swam in a Cambrian sea more than 500 million years ...

Life was flourishing long before the Cambrian "explosion". The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest molluscs, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists ...